TROUT HUNTING: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. By Bob Wyatt.

2004 1st edition - UK issue. 4to (195 x 255mm). Pp191. Colour and b/w photographs, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"A wide ranging and entertaining investigation of some of fly-fishing's central mysteries." The author is a well-known contributor to Fly Fishing and Fly Tying magazine. "This is the most intelligent and readable book on trout fishing we have read for years." (Country Club UK). "It is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the truly superb angling books of our time." (Trout and Salmon). "A book that is both a delight to read and a treasury of fresh ideas." (Shooting and Conservation). "Wyatt is not afraid to challenge the 'received view' and to shake the trees of some famous writers on both sides of the Atlantic. He... dismisses the notions of conscious selectivity and trout intelligence. And good on him because what he says is true; there is so much nonsense nowadays about the demands of fooling increasingly 'educated' trout." (Rob Sloane). Chapters include: Tradition; Where to find them; Rivers (two chapters) - the informed guess, tactics, smart trout, selective trout, looking vs seeing, reconnaissance, fishing the hatch; Still waters I - bank and boat, Tasmania; Still waters II - northern Scottish lochs, limestone lochs of Cape Wrath; Fly design - never-fails, originality, the prey image, fresh angles on selective trout, tying for vulnerability; New arts and old mysteries - wet fly, lough fly, nymphs, baitfish imitations for big trout, on the beach; The experience is the thing.